MR. SAMUELSONasked Mr. Attorney General, Whether his attention has been directed to the inconvenience entailed on suitors having causes in Vice Chancellor Bacon's Court, by the accumulation of arrears which has been attributed to the divided duties of that Judge; and whether it is intended to provide any remedy?
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, in reply, said, he understood that there had been some delay in the hearing of cases in Vice Chancellor Bacon's Court; but he was also given to understand that that in great degree arose from other causes. The power existed to transfer causes from one Court to another, and some of the cases now down for hearing in Vice Chancellor Bacon's Court would be transferred to the Master of the Rolls, or to Vice Chancellor Wickens, or some other Judge. He believed that by this means a remedy would be applied. With respect to the question of divided jurisdiction, he was informed that Vice Chancellor Bacon had to sit only one day in the week to hear bankruptcy cases. He believed that to be 46 the case, though he could not state the fact from his own knowledge.